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s_hhs_2017a_2017-04-06t13:33:38z2 Hearing Summary

Date: 04/06/2017

Location: SCR 354

Final

BILL SUMMARY for HB17-1185



SENATE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES


Votes: View--> Action Taken:
Refer House Bill 17-1185 to the Committee of the W PASS







03:33 PM -- HB 17-1185



Senator Smallwood, bill sponsor, presented House Bill 17-1185. The bill adds officials and employees of county departments of health, human services, or social services to the list of mandatory reporters of child abuse. It also allows these county employees to receive certain follow up information about children about whom they file a report of child abuse or neglect if they continue to be officially and professionally involved in the ongoing care of the child. The bill expands the period for county departments of human services to provide such follow up information to all eligible mandatory reports from 30 days to 60 days after the report of child abuse and neglect is filed.





03:36 PM --
Lucinda Wayland Connelly, Colorado Department of Human Services, testified in support of the bill.



03:39 PM



Senator Smallwood made closing comments.


BILL: HB17-1185
TIME: 03:40:03 PM
MOVED: Smallwood
MOTION: Refer House Bill 17-1185 to the Committee of the Whole with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendar. The motion passed on a vote of 5-0.
SECONDED:
VOTE
Aguilar
Yes
Crowder
Yes
Kefalas
Yes
Martinez Humenik
Yes
Smallwood
Yes
Final YES: 5 NO: 0 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS



03:42 PM



Senator Martinez Humenik adjourned the meeting.












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